Clothes scraper and cleaner.



PATENTED SEPT. 29, 1903.

A. BEARDSLEY. CLOTHES SGRAPER AND CLEANER.

APPLICATION nun 3211.13. 1903.

80 MODEL.

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witnesses UNITED STATES Patented September 29, 1903. Q

AARON BEARD SLEY,'OF OMAHA, NEBRASKA.

CLOTHES SCRAPER AND CLEANER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 739,813, dated September 29, 1903.

Application filed April 13, 1903.

T aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Anson BEARDSLEY, a citizen of the United States,residingat Omaha,

" in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska,-have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes Scrapers and Cleaners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention provides an article for removing mud and like soil from clothing or fabrics, the same comprising a series of tubes for collecting the foreign matter when loosened and removed from the clothing, thereby preventing the same being scattered and dissipated into the surrounding air.

The device may be carried in the pocket or may be attached to a clothes-brush or other toilet article. i

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of the means for effecting the result reference is to be had to the following description and drawings hereto attached.

While the essential and characteristic features of the invention are susceptible of modification, still the preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the article. Fig. 2 is a perspective view with the cover removed. Fig. 3 is a cross-section.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters. 7

The article comprises a case consisting of a body portion 1 and cap or cover 2. The rim 3 of body portion 1 constitutes a scraping edge and is outwardly crimped near its juncture with the bottom, as shown at 4, to receive the edge portion of the flexible material 5, constituting the base, to which the tubes 6 are attached. The article is of a size to be conveniently carried in the pocket, and when the cap 2 is in place tubes 6 are inclosed and the dirt or foreign matter contained therein may be safely carried to a convenient point to be discharged. 1 i

The base 5 may be of leather, rubber, or like flexible material and has the tubes 6 se= $erial No. 152,458. (No model.)

cured thereto. By having the base of flexible material'tubes 6 are enabled to have a limited movement, so as to yield slightly when the article is in operation. Tubes 6 are headed and are secured at their headed ends to base 5 in any substantial way. In the proferable construction base 5 is composed of two layers or plies stitched or otherwise secured, the tubes being pressed through the outermost layer or ply and having their head portions confined between said layers. The base 5, with tube 6, is held within body ,1 by having its edge portion pressed into a crimped portion 4, the intermediate portion of the base being free, thereby permitting tubes 6 to have a limited movement. are approximately of a length corresponding to the depth of rim 3 to admit of their ends coming in contact with theclothing or fabric to be cleaned and also admitting of cap 2 being placed in position.

The rim 3 constitutes a scraping edge for loosening mud or like soil from clothing or fabrics, and when the article is passed over the spot containing the dust or loosened soil the same is removed and for the most part collects in the tube. After using the cleaner the cap is replaced upon the base and preven ts scattering of the dust, thereby retaining the accumulation-lint, dust, and the likeuntil opportunity is afforded for discharging the same.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is- 1. A clothes-cleaner comprising a hollow body open at one side and having itsrim portion outwardly crimped adjacent to the plane of the head, a flexible base insertible through I the open side of the bodyand supported by the head thereof and having its edge portion fitted into the outwardly-crimped portion of the rim, and a series of cleaner elements secured to the said base, substantially as described.

2. A clothes-cleaner comprising ahollow vbody open at one side and having its rim portion outwardly crimped adjacent tothe plane of the head, a flexible base insertible through the open side of the body and supported by The tubes 6 the head thereof and having its edge portion fitted into the outwardly-crimped portion of In testimony whereof I affix my signature the rim, a series of tubes secured to the said in presence of two witnesses. base, and a cap for olosin the 0 en side of the hollow bodyand having its rind encircling AARON BEABDSLEY' 5 the rim of the body and limited in its move- Witnesses:

ment by contact with the outer crimped por- MATTHEW W. SWAIN, tion of the rim of said body. GEORGE E. CROsBY. 

